Jeremy Green, principal analyst at Ovum commented that the deal between by Vodafone and Telefonica in sharing netweork servcies in the UK to facialted the creation of a 4G network was expected and represents the future of shared services.

Jeremy called the sharing of services by the two competitors an "entirely sensible move" and that Ovum had predicted such a outcome of two networks sharing such services as early as 2008.

Vodafone joins with Telefonica to deliver 4G

Jeremey said “It follows on from the merger of T-Mobile and Orange in the UK into Everything Everywhere. If Vodafone and Telefonica had not also embraced sharing in this way they would have been at a competitive disadvantage."